# Fractures at Seneca Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016087830` · 8/20/2016 · GILLETT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Cans
## Employer
- **Name:** Seneca Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 200 N. Green Bay Ave., GILLETT, WISCONSIN, 54124
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a forklift operator straighten the cardboard dust cover on a pallet. The top three pallets in the stack collapsed, causing several hundred cans of green beans to fall on the employee, breaking both of his lower legs.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*